The Crimson Horror

Mr Sweet, looking a bit ruddy

One episode (The Crimson Horror)
First broadcast May 4 2013
Average audience for story: 6.47m + 1.83m iPlayer = 8.30m

REGULAR CAST

Matt Smith (The Doctor) Born Oct 28 1982 Click here for Matt Smith's entry on The End of Time

Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) Born Apr 27 1986 Click here for Jenna Coleman's entry on Asylum of the Daleks

GUEST CAST

Eve De Leon Allen (Angie) Born 1997
Doctor Who credits
Played: Angie in The Bells of Saint John (2013), The Crimson Horror (2013), Nightmare in Silver (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
Eve's other work includes playing The Boss in the 2008 series Nuzzle and Scratch, and Acacia in the 2018 short film Bloodbound.

Facts

Her agency lists Eve as non-binary, female presenting.

Jack Oliver Hudson (Urchin boy [Thomas Thomas])
This is Jack's only credit.

Kassius Carey Johnson (Artie)
Doctor Who credits
Played: Artie in The Bells of Saint John (2013), The Crimson Horror (2013), Nightmare in Silver (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
Other work includes Gigglebiz (2009-10), Man Down (2013), Hank Zipzer (2015), Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018) and Grantchester (2019).

Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra) Born Apr 9 1972
Doctor Who credits
Played: Alaya in The Hungry Earth/ Cold Blood (2010)
Played: Restac in Cold Blood (2010)
Played: Madame Vastra in A Good Man Goes to War (2011), The Great Detective (2012, uncredited), Vastra Investigates (2012, uncredited), The Snowmen (2012), The Battle of Demon's Run - Two Days Later (2013, uncredited), The Crimson Horror (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014)
Neve also played Vastra at the 2013 Doctor Who Prom
Career highlights
Debuted in Renegade (1993), then The Leading Man (1996), Plunkett and Macleane (1999), Psychos (1999), Gormenghast (2000), The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002), The Trouble with Men and Women (2005), The Ghost Squad (2005), Low Winter Sun (2006), Sea of Souls (2007), Law and Order UK (2010), Single Father (2010), Lip Service (2012), Ripper Street (2013), Dracula (2013), Critical (2015), Death in Paradise (2016), Guerrilla (2017), Lucky Man (2018), The Small Hand (2019), Traces (2019-20), Tin Star (2020) and Shetland (2018-21). She also enjoyed the recurring role of Donna Rix in 17 episodes of Bodies (2004-06).
Facts
Neve (real name Carol) divorced her husband Xandy Sahla - a prolific TV and film cameraman - in 2009, after meeting on the set of Psychos in 1999. Here's Neve's Twitter account.

Brendan Patricks (Edmund & Jonas Thursday) Born Dec 3 1980
Doctor Who credits
Played: Edmund Thursday in The Crimson Horror (2013)
Played: Jonas Thursday in The Crimson Horror (2013)
Career highlights
Brendan made his acting debut in The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (2006), followed by Heroes and Villains (2006), Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007), Gavin & Stacey (2007), Horne and Corden (2009), The Legend of Dick and Dom (2011), Blandings (2013), Skins (2013), The Wrong Mans (2013), Mr Sloane (2014), In the Club (2014-16), Bad Education (2014), Outlander (2016), Fearless (2017), Kiri (2018), Traitors (2019), Gentleman Jack (2019), Breeders (2020) and Devils (2022). He also played the semi-regular role of Evelyn Napier in Downton Abbey (2010/13/15).
Facts
As well as being an actor, Brendan is also one half of a magic double act with comedian Nick Mohammed. Here's Brendan on Twitter.

Diana Rigg (Miss Gillyflower) Jul 20 1938 to Sep 10 2020 (lung cancer)
Career highlights
Diana made her screen acting debut in a 1959 TV adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed by The Sentimental Agent (1963), Women Beware Women (1965), The Assassination Bureau (1969), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969, as the first woman to marry James Bond), Theatre of Blood (1973), Three Piece Suite (1977), Oresteia (1979), Hedda Gabler (1981), The Great Muppet Caper (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Bleak House (1985), The Worst Witch (1986), Mother Love (1989), The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995), Rebecca (1997), Parting Shots (1998), The Last King (2003), Extras (2006), The Painted Veil (2006), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Professor Branestawm Returns (2015), Breathe (2017), Victoria (2017), All Creatures Great and Small (2020), Black Narcissus (2020) and Last Night in Soho (2021). Regular roles include Emma Peel in 51 episodes of The Avengers (1965-68), Diana Smythe in Diana (1973-74), Adela Bradley in The Mrs Bradley Mysteries (1998-2000), Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013-17) and Veronica in Detectorists (2015-17).

Awards

1988: Commander of the order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to drama

1990: BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress (Mother Love)

1992: Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (Medea)

1994: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Medea)

1994: Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for services to theatre and film

1996: Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress (Mother Courage/ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

1997: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Special (Rebecca)

2000: BAFTA Special Award (The Avengers) - shared with Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson
Facts
In 2003, Diana was awarded more than $63,000 in damages after two newspapers accused her of being an embittered woman who held British men in low regard. Diana's first husband was Israeli artist Menachem Gueffen, while her second was theatre producer Archie Stirling (whose uncle founded the Special Air Service (SAS)). This marriage ended in divorce after Stirling had an affair with actress Joely Richardson. Diana and Archie's daughter is actress Rachael Stirling, who plays Diana's daughter in The Crimson Horror (Rachael is married to Elbow lead singer Guy Garvey). Diana was a lifelong smoker, but gave up in 2017 following heart surgery during which her heart temporarily stopped. Diana, who was the first Dame to act in Doctor Who, was a supporter of assisted dying, and in 2023 her daughter Rachel wrote a powerful and moving article for the Guardian about her mother's final days and why she held these views.

Dan Starkey (Strax) Born Sep 27 1977 Click here for Dan Starkey's entry on The Sontaran Stratagem

Rachael Stirling (Ada Gillyflower) Born May 30 1977
Career highlights
Rachael debuted in Still Crazy (1998), followed by Maybe Baby (2000), Complicity (2000), The Triumph of Love (2001), Tipping the Velvet (2002), Hotel Babylon (2006), The Haunted Airman (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Centurion (2010), Women in Love (2011), Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), The Bletchley Circle (2012-14), The Game (2014), Detectorists (2014-17), Churchill's Secret (2016), The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018), Wild Bill (2019), Life (2020), Love in the Lockdown (2021), Grantchester (2021) and Hollington Drive (2021).
Facts
Rachael is the daughter of her Crimson Horror co-star Diana Rigg and theatre producer Archie Stirling (Stirling is also Laird of the Keir Estate in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, which makes Rachael descended from King Charles II). Rachael is also a distant relative of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and actor Rupert Everett. Between 2007-12, she was in a relationship with fellow actor Oliver Chris. In 2016 Rachael married singer Guy Garvey, from the band Elbow.

Catrin Stewart (Jenny) Born Jan 29 1988
Doctor Who credits
Played: Jenny Flint in A Good Man Goes to War (2011), The Snowmen (2012), The Crimson Horror (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013), Deep Breath (2014)
Catrin also played Jenny in the minisodes The Great Detective (2012), Vastra Investigates (2012) and The Battle of Demon's Run - Two Days Later (2013)
Career highlights
Catrin's other work includes Hearts of Gold (2003), Crusade in Jeans (2006), All Shook Up! (2010), Misfits (2010-11), Frail (2012), The Library Suicides (2016), Lifelines (2020) and One for the Road (2021). She also played Emma in 34 episodes of Stella (2012-17) and DS Gina Jenkins in Bang (2017-20).

Michelle Tate (Abigail)
Career highlights
Debuted in Bleak House (2005), then Harry Hill's TV Burp (2006, recreating her guest role from that week's The Bill), Casualty (2008), Dread (2009), Harry Brown (2009), Moving On (2010), The Case (2011), Borgia (2013-14), The A Word (2016-17) and Doctors (2010/12/15/17/19).
Facts
You can see Michelle audition for a part in a production of The Crucible here (it gives a little insight into what auditioning can be like!).

Graham Turner (Amos) Born 1951
Career highlights
Debuted in Brett (1971), followed by Spearhead (1981), The Prisoner of Zenda (1984), Grange Hill (1988), A Touch of Frost (1994), McCallum (1997), Insiders (1997), Little Voice (1998), Dinnerladies (1999), Baddiel's Syndrome (2001), Bad Girls (2002), Mersey Beat (2002), The Trial of Tony Blair (2007), Luther (2010), Waking the Dead (2011), Silent Witness (2020) and Housebound (2020). He also played Walter Charlton in Where the Heart Is (1997-2000).
Facts
He was once married to actress Jacqueline Leonard, best known for playing Lorraine Wicks in EastEnders, Dr Caroline Powers in Doctors and Lydia Murdoch in River City. Graham's son is actor Ben Turner, who played King Louis in The Girl in the Fireplace.

Olivia Vinall (Effie) Born c.1990
Career highlights
Belgian-born Olivia's earliest acting screen credit was in Doctors (2011), then Casualty (2012), Holby City (2014-15), Midsomer Murders (2016), Apple Tree Yard (2017), The Woman in White (2018), Queens of Mystery (2019), Roadkill (2020) and A Beautiful Curse (2021).
Facts
Olivia's parents named her after the character in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (her sister Miranda was named after a character from The Tempest). As her father was a diplomat, she grew up in the UK, Belgium and the US. Here she is on Twitter.

CREW

Mark Gatiss (writer) Born Oct 17 1966 Click here for Mark Gatiss's entry on The Unquiet Dead

Saul Metzstein (director) Born Dec 30 1970
Doctor Who credits
Directed: Good as Gold (2012), Pond Life (2012), Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (2012), A Town Called Mercy (2012), The Snowmen (2012), The Crimson Horror (2013), The Name of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
Saul's earliest work behind the camera was as a production runner on the film Shallow Grave (1994, which starred future Doctor Christopher Eccleston). Other roles include location assistant on Trainspotting (1996) and second unit director on the films Dredd (2012), Black Sea (2014) and Suffragette (2015). As an outright director he debuted on the short Santa/ Claws (1997, which he also wrote), followed by Late Night Shopping (2001), Guy X (2005), Micro Men (2009), Upstairs, Downstairs (2010), The Musketeers (2014), Ripper Street (2014), You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015), Living the Dream (2017) and Brassic (2020).

Awards

2002: BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Feature Film Director (Late Night Shopping)
Facts
Saul's father was architect Isi Metzstein, who helped design a number of notable churches in and around Glasgow, as well as Robinson College, Cambridge. Here he is on Twitter.
In 2013 Toby Hadoke released his Who's Round interview with Saul here.

Marcus Wilson (producer) Born Jul 4 1973 Click here for Marcus Wilson's entry on The Impossible Astronaut

John Phillips (Assistant script editor)
Doctor Who credits
Assistant script editor: Asylum of the Daleks, The Power of Three, The Angels Take Manhattan, The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver (2012-13)
Script editor: The Name of the Doctor (2013)
Career highlights
John has also acted as production associate on Lip Service (2012) and MI High (2013), and script editor on Midsomer Murders (2013-14), Our Zoo (2014) and The Job Lot (2014). As a producer, he has worked on Lucky Man (2017), Endeavour (2018), Origin (2018) and Three Pines (2022).
Facts
In 2011 John gave some advice on script editing to The Ideas Tap.